Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life After Stalin

by Steven E. Harris

This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev's thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405660
• ISBN13: 9781421405667
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher